Steve Sabol
Steve Sabol
Stephen Douglas "Steve" Sabolwas an American filmmaker. He was the president and one of the founders of NFL Films, along with his father Ed. He was also a widely exhibited visual artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 October 1942
CountryUnited States of America
football play perspective
I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?
football player games
Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull,
football heart names
Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.
sports football emotion
Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
football falling-in-love thinking
If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.
movie football games
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
football struggle kids
To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
football team struggle
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.
football perfect i-can
But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.
football life-is-good life-is
Life is good. Football is better.
football great-football life-is-great
Life is great, football is better.
cranky five last miserable principles seen stood
Everything Lombardi stood for, everything that the Packers accomplished, all the principles that Lombardi has espoused for the last five years would be tarnished if they lost. He was as crabby and cranky and miserable as I'd ever seen him.
bowl corporate crowd event super
The Super Bowl is such a corporate event that even the crowd doesn't have the same intensity.
believed conditions famous karl quote
I've always believed in that famous quote from Karl Marx, something like; 'Men make history, but not under conditions of their own choosing.